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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/47 are available.
*Recent changes*
- If you use the Chrome web browser on Android https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Android_(operating_system) you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_PDFs - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179957.
*Problems*
- Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180714[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178635[4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20171116-s5-dewiki-wikidata
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&year=2017&month=11&day=21. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=11&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
*Future changes*
- Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-%7Bzh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}-must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119158[6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2017-November/001730.html
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//Johan Jönsson